The fediverse is a network Christine wrote all by herself so she could be too distracted to do any other work later in the future when she needed to get it done

ActivityPub is an anti-fascist protocol. There are no fascists on here. Not even one.

PROOF: They aren't allowed, we put it in the spec, so if someone is being fascist on here, technically they're not implementing ActivityPub they're doing something else. NOT OUR PROBLEM

ActivityPub uses JSON-LD, which is basically just "lexical scope, but for JSON", so now you understand it

ActivityPub is when you go on a date with a girl and at the end of it she's like oh shit no way you're THAT CHRISTINE why didn't you tell me this earlier let me get you my fedi handle

ActivityPub is a protocol for me personally to say "Ha yeah, I'm the QUEEN OF THE FEDIVERSE" and look cool and then the moment someone starts to bristle I can say "don't worry no I'm anti-royalty no I didn't choose this name for myself it was the fediverse hold on"

ActivityPub is a series of tubes

But not those kinds of tubes. It's actually just a big node graph in Blender. A geometry nodes thing

ActivityPub is a protocol for people to run servers for their friends and and community and then wonder why they are so tired all the time

ActivityPub? Don't you mean OcapPub?!

ActivityPub is the network with the highest percentage of Firefox users, and also the highest percentage of people mad at Mozilla all the time

ActivityPub? It's like decentralized Twitter. But before that guy bought it. And nothing like that at all. So forget I said anything

ActivityPub is a protocol for when you're supposed to be writing your keynote for Fediforum about the future of ActivityPub and instead you post messages over ActivityPub joking about ActivityPub to procrastinate (me RN)

"The fediverse", aka the Mastodon Protocol, aka the network everyone pointed to when social media corporations did bad things until Bluesky came along and decentralized everything

ActivityPub is whatever you tell me it is